SUGAR CANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sugar cane mean? 

• SUGAR CANE (noun)
  The noun SUGAR CANE has 2 senses:

1. juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice

2. tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar

  Familiarity information: SUGAR CANE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUGAR CANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sugar cane; sugarcane

Hypernyms ("sugar cane" is a kind of...):

cane (a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane)

Holonyms ("sugar cane" is a part of...):

Saccharum officinarum; sugar cane; sugarcane (tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Saccharum officinarum; sugar cane; sugarcane

Hypernyms ("sugar cane" is a kind of...):

graminaceous plant; gramineous plant (cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "sugar cane"):

sugar cane; sugarcane (juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sugar cane"):

noble cane (sugarcanes representing the highest development of the species; characterized by large juicy stalks with soft rinds and high sugar content)

Holonyms ("sugar cane" is a member of...):

genus Saccharum; Saccharum (tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane)

 Context examples 

A substance found in some fruits, sugar beets, and sugar cane.

(Glycolic acid, NCI Dictionary)

The positive message from the study is that this scenario may be averted with no significant harm to the increase in the agricultural production set to take place in the cerrado—something near 15 million hectares for soy beans and sugar cane in the next 30 years.

(Species native to Brazil savanna likely to face extinction, Agência Brasil)